Jamais Cascio Quotes

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• Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

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  Community, Innovation, Working Together

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• By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

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  Today, Tomorrow

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• Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

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  Goal, Survival, Resilience

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• Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

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  Design, Energy, May

  Jamais Cascio “Hacking the Earth”, Lulu.com

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• To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

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  Would Be, Global Warming, Geoengineering

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• Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

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  Thinking, Agriculture, Water

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• Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

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  Winning, Trying, Littles

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• It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

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  Atmosphere, Accepted, Rough

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• Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

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  Skills, People, Looks

  "Google isn't making us dumb - or smart. That's the problem" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.

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• When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

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  Memories, Space, Radio

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• Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

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  Focus And Concentration, Creative, Drug

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• Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

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  Keys, Everyday, May

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• Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

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  Needs, Decrease, Increase

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• The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

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  Future, Ideas, Work Out

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• The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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  Work, Technology, Differences

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• It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

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  Information, Easy, Individual

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• Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

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  Communication, Messages, Method

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• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

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  Running, People, Decision

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• Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

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  Example, Action, Natural

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• In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

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  Eye, World, Skeptical

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• A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

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  Fiction Stories, Might, Science Fiction

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• Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

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  Urbanization, Wind, Civilization

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• Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

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  Tunnels, Wind, Strategy

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• Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

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  Faces, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouses

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• Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

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